In an excerpt of her new book, “A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race From the Colonial Era to Obama’s America,” Jacqueline Jones describes how, “decades removed from the lows of segregation, black America still struggles against its twisted logic.”
Longer article: http://www.aasa.org/content.aspx?id=30814
“With the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s“I Have a Dream” speech approaching next week, Pewreleased today a new survey on public perception of the progress blacks have made in America since then. The top-level finding is unsurprising: African-Americans are much more pessimistic than whites are in rating the extent to which they still face inequality and unfairness in American society. And they’re significantly more likely to say that a lot of work still needs to be done.”
Another case study of race and perceptions in the United States. Even if the officers thought he was making an obscene gesture, why would they do this? What about freedom of expression?
There are many anniversaries from the Civil Rights Movement this year, including the March on Washington.
“For the Month of August, Morning Edition and The Race Card Project are looking back at a seminal moment in civil rights history: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his iconic “I Have A Dream Speech” on Aug. 28, 1963. Approximately 250,000 people descended on the nation’s capitol from all over the country for the mass demonstration.”
http://www.npr.org/2013/08/05/207913707/to-join-63-march-on-washington-like-climbing-a-mountain
Jazz and race, in the 1930’s and 1940’s in the United States.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/07/24/205181866/ball-of-fire
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